Thomas W. Sherman

Thomas West Sherman (26 March 1813-31 December 1879) was a Brigadier-General of the US Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Thomas West Sherman was born in Newport, Rhode Island in 1813, and he graduated from West Point in 1836. He fought against the Seminoles in Florida from 1836 to 1838, the Cherokee in 1838, and again in Florida from 1838 to 1842. Sherman commanded an artillery battery at the Battle of Buena Vista during the Mexican-American War, and he served on the frontier in the years before the American Civil War. On 17 May 1861, he became a Brigadier-General of the US Army, and he led an expedition to capture Port Royal, South Carolina from 3 to 7 November 1861. He took over George Henry Thomas' division at Corinth in the Western Theater when Thomas was promoted, and he was severely wounded at Port Hudson, losing his right leg. Sherman's wounds were thought to be mortal, and an obituary was written for him; however, he survived, and he held administrative commands in Louisiana for the rest of the war. He retired in 1870, and he died in Newport in 1879 at the age of 66.